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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Make your own payment processor, Gaben. It's the way.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Then people would have to get specific cards or crypto or whatever that aren't Visa/MasterCard in order to buy Steam games. That, of course, is if you can get banks to agree to carry "Steam cards". Either that, or everyone would need to buy Steam gift cards as an exclusive form of payment.

All of these are much less convenient than keeping your existing debit/credit card to pay for Steam games, and less convenience means less sales.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago

Or you could just transfer funds to a steam card, then with that, but all you want.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but SteamPay is the future

[–] sep@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Steam does not have to only accept steampay. Tho? You fear visa and mastercard will blaclist steam?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Steam removed games because visa and mastercard threatened to blaclist it, so yeah. That's the whole point.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Is that kinda what PayPal is, or was intended to be?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but PayPal's awful. They literally arbitrarily deny you access to your own funds. At least the banks have rules.

If someone wants to pay me something they can use it literally anything other than PayPal. I don't trust them they've stolen money from me before.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

I don't trust them they've stolen money from me before

Same. They stole a small amount (~10 USD), but at that time that was 2-3 days worth of groceries where I live (which would have helped a lot)

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

they've actually paid me after I was scammed by fake stock broker. without fussing about it too. Really easy to get payments reversed.

Either way I’d be happy to also switch to another method of payment if it were an option.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago

PayPal is almost as pornphobic as MastercardVisa